Nootka Wolf Mask.

The Nootka--now more often referred to as Westcoast People--are an American Indian group on Vancouver Island. They were, traditionally, master wood carvers and used wood in many aspects of their lives: their houses, furniture, canoes, containers, masks, and headdresses. Wood was also used for clothing: they crafted robes out of shredded cedar bark, and made ceremonial garments by weaving cedar bark with mountain-goat wool.  The mask above would likely have been used by a dancer during a performance.